Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stachys hispida
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Stachys is a large and complex genus that is still actively being worked on, and our understanding of the species is slowly being clarified. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys tenuifolia
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stachys tenuifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)
Stachys hispida
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)
Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Stachys hispida
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Stachys tenuifolia var. hispida
COMMON NAME:
Hispid Hedgenettle
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_stte_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_stte_004_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Stachys hispida
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Stachys tenuifolia
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Stachys tenuifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
A new hedge-nettle (Stachys: Lamiaceae) from the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont and Coastal Plain (Fleming, Nelson, & Townsend; 2011)
Stachys hispida
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia
INCLUDED WITHIN
Stachys (Labitae) in Southeastern United States (Nelson, 1981)
Stachys tenuifolia var. tenuifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Stachys hispida
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Stachys tenuifolia var. hispida
2956
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Wet meadows and mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare in GA Mountains
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
FLOWER:
Summer
White/Pink/Lavender
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed campanulate calyx
2-lipped corolla, upper hood-like, lower three-lobed
4 stamens, arched under the corolla's upper lip
Superior ovary
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia (Chafin, 2007) p379
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p081?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p231?
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